Priority 4: Supporting the Shift Towards a Low Carbon
Economy
Thomas Blackmore
Midlands GDT P4 Lead
26th January 2017
SEMLEP ERDF Workshop
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Purpose of the Presentation
General overview – what it is, and what it is not
Brief walkthrough of main activity – localised perspective
Demystify P4, perceptions and why it is problematic
Questions
Barriers Facing Priority 4
Priority 4 has proved to be a complicated and challenging
priority to deliver
•Match Funding – always problematic
•New Programme - not business as usual
•Capacity for surplus energy – know your thermodynamics!
•SME Inertia – take up and market demand
•What is a Low Carbon Whole Place Solution – no universal solution
•Having projects that are ready to deliver – applications not thought through
• Do they fit with your ESIF Call?
• Do they fit with your ESIF Strategy
• Are ESIF / LEP colleagues aware of them?
4a. Promoting the production and distribution
of energy derived from renewable sources
Specific Objective: to increase the number of small scale
renewable energy schemes in England
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Promote and distribute renewable energy. Works well for business parks
and university campuses
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Not always practical for SMEs
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Better suited to rural areas than urban
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Provide demonstrators
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Build capacity and develop small scale infrastructure that can unlock
larger renewable projects
4b. Promoting energy efficiency and renewable
energy use in enterprises
Specific objective: to increase energy efficiency in particular in
SMEs, including through the implementation of low carbon
technologies
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Support should be energy efficiency not resource efficiency
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Diagnostic, energy audits– follow up with retrofit measures
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Grant and retrofits for “whole place” solutions
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Promote above benefits to SMEs in supply chain, stimulate market
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Consider need and demand, SME take-up
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Be realistic. What can you offer for the value of grants?
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Consider what’s available already - Additionality
4c. Supporting energy efficiency, smart energy
management and renewable energy use in public
infrastructure, including in public buildings, and in
the housing sector
Specific Objective: Increase energy efficiency in homes and
public buildings, including through the implementation of low
carbon technologies
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Focus is on demonstration not mass roll out of whole scale retrofit of public
estate
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Standard retrofit isn’t eligible
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Could be process, materials or technology that is innovative. Often the
application of technology is innovative, not just the technology
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Can you do more with less? – comprehensive small-scale demonstrators
4e. Promoting low-carbon strategies for all types of
territories, in particular for urban areas, including the
promotion of sustainable multimodal urban mobility
and mitigation-relevant adaptation measures
Specific Objectives: Increase implementation of whole place low
carbon solutions and decentralised energy measures
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Bringing together a number of activities - Transport, Energy & Green
Infrastructure within a geographically defined area
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Can provide the opportunity to support delivery of local opportunities
utilising funding allocated to support transport improvements for example,
but don’t concentrate on just transport
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Business Park; Market Towns; University Campuses etc. Consolidated area
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Not higgledy-piggledy ad hoc measures, public realm, canal tow paths,
cycle routes etc.
4f. Promoting research and innovation in, and
adoption of, low-carbon technologies
Specific Objective: Increase innovation in, and adoption of, low
carbon technologies
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Focus is on knowledge transfer
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Need to be consistent with Smart Specialisation Strategy in England
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Technology centres of excellence, test centres, demonstration
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Development of low carbon and renewable energy technologies
Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory Project John Moores University Liverpool
Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory Project
Business Benefits
Reducing operational costs, developing new income streams, accessing new
markets and increasing profitability. Product development, improved efficient
processes, building design solutions, transport, carbon finance or measuring,
monitoring and reporting carbon to suppliers and customers.
University Expertise
Businesses receive the support of experts within the LCEI who will develop the
right low carbon strategy for each individual company by mapping its current
practices and future potential. The nature of the support, including timescales,
will dictate if the business will be allocated a research collaborator, an
academic member of staff or student project.
ACME P4 Demonstrator Project
Energy
Time
Appliances X, Y and Z etc
Smart Meter
Energy Management System
Aid Memoir
Refurbishments, Retrofits and Innovative Technology
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It is the implementation, application and purpose of the technology that is often the
most innovative, not the technology itself – a lever is simplistic and basic, yet the
most efficient machine in existence
The sum of the parts is greater than the whole when they are combined, think of our
example
Communities, Strategies, Research
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Often small community renewable, energy efficiency projects with community
engagement work better than multi-partner high tech university ones
• Local demand
• Potential to replicate at local scale
• Transport pilots to create infrastructure for example electric
and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, good yes but consider
practicalities, state aid and revenue generation
Questions
Thomas Blackmore
0303 444 6591
[email protected]
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